Just saw this review - which I thought was pretty balanced. At the 3:30 mark they show a gun with the "rifling blowing out?" I gues it could be lead - but lead 9mm reloads are pretty uncommon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9ZM3KeHiGg

Watched the video, was not impressed.

Gun barrel is made from steel. Bullets are clad in copper. Steel is harder than copper, therefore steel does not strip out of barrel.

Lead reloads are easy to be had in 9mm. The bullets are all over the gunshows, and are plain lead prior to plating with copper.

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870shooter wrote:Watched the video, was not impressed.

Gun barrel is made from steel. Bullets are clad in copper. Steel is harder than copper, therefore steel does not strip out of barrel.

Lead reloads are easy to be had in 9mm. The bullets are all over the gunshows, and are plain lead prior to plating with copper.

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Not sure I understand your comments - but will try to respond. Forget video, consider what we can see in the pic. I've been shooting a LONG time - never seen that before. Lead could be a possibility, my comment was to the likelihood - not really IMHO. The number of reloaders (compared to shooters) is very, very small - likely only a single digit percentage. Most of those reloaders (excluding the REALLY cheap ones or the really high volume ones) don't reload 9mm in lead. I can't recall the least time I saw reloaded 9mm in lead and will go out on a limb any say there are no factory 9mm loads in lead. That would mean a reloader (statistically uncommon), reloaded 9mm in lead (also not very common), and did not recognize lead in his barrel - something I would also think is uncommon (as most reloaders are very in tune with what they're doing and wouldn't mistake lead for steel) -OR- The corner of a land did shear off, and/or had a serious burr on it that should have NEVER made it through QC.

Will be brief and concise. Lead and copper arre nowhere near as barrel steel. Lead and copper do not "strip" rifling out of barrels.

No indication of loads fired, so results are suspect, at best.

All our guesses are just that.

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870shooter wrote:Will be brief and concise. Lead and copper arre nowhere near as barrel steel. Lead and copper do not "strip" rifling out of barrels.

No indication of loads fired, so results are suspect, at best.

All our guesses are just that.

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I have to agree. Could it be a flaw from the factory? I'd say that's a possibility. I guess there could have been some poor or incomplete machining of the rifling that is showing up after firing. But stripping out the rifling...I wouldn't think so.